The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-30

The summer has been characterized every
where by an unusual degree of heat. Per
maps this is the reason of the rush for
loularGs and soft silks. Whatever the
cause, soft India silks, tussores and spotted
or inquired toulardS form the majority of
the
CASINO COSTUMES.
The Casino is the swell lounge in the morn
ing. 1t is pretty, but monotonouS. The
same people meet and do the same things;
that Is, SIT still or saunter about, exchange
word with those they know, watch-with-
Out apparent nterest--a game of tennis
ana 60 home; stopping to buy novel or
look at an exhibition of recently arrived
millinery on the way.
Following this convenient custom we
dropped i'll the other day upon a collection
OF fresh and charming costumes The pretty
IoulardS were in stripes, like the borders on
Soyres ware, dividing the small figures and
howeretS into wider stripes The favorite
colors are heliotrope and white, clear cur
rant red and white and a pretty fawn gray,
With rings i'll two shades of brown.
Rutlles seem to be coming again, and lace
Is used, but the drapcrieS fall gracefully and
no longer form the huge bunch at the back;
II Tact tins has almost entirely disappeared.
Graduated bands Of MORE ribbon often
form panel upon one side of these fOulard
SO'IbiihNo, III lJ0SlUlNG COtOl Nullt
the other side is looped high, the lace, or
soft sllken fabric falling III curtain folds.
A charming dress was of tussOre silk
trimmed with fine, open embroidery in sew
eral shades of brown laid upon cream.
Another pretty dress is a currant red China
silk, covered with minute cord pattern i'll
white and made with white China crepe
vest. The hat of red straw was trimmed
with white crepe and great branch of red
currants Brown and buff and red and
white are favorite combinations, but it is
hard to convey to the uninitiated what is
meant by combination of colOrs and tints,
which are as different from the ordinary
Dllch red, mixed mustard yellow and chalk
white as can be imagined.
The highest object in combining color is
always to blend, to lose one in another, SO
that 1t Is difficult to tell where one ends and
another begins. Mrs Donovan exhibited
some dresses that were works of art in this
respect. The edges We're formed of numer-
Gus very narrow pinked and pointed ruftles
SO sCant as to be almost straight and over
tapping. The body OF the dress was CON-
posed OF surah in minute check and tus-
sore, the check containing shades of
brown, gray and green. all of which, as well
as the tussore, appeared in the pinked out
edges of the trimming.
Another dress exhibited by this modste
was of petunia silk, covered with a trans
parent trimming which had the effect of
embroidery, but was woven in petuuia silk
and white A third dress was of the finest
white India wool, the trimming, a border
of lovely India cashmere embroidery, ar
ranged in stripes upon one side as border
for the drapery, as vest and cuffs for the
sleeves.
There is a total absence in Newport of
the cheap embroidered and bordered robes
and dresses, which are the staple of the
selling Off shops in town and country.
Simple dresses are made up without trim
ming; never with cheap, machine-made
lace or embroidery. AT
VERY FINE DINNER
i'll Newport some dresses were displayed
that may be worth noting. One of these
was of fawn grey Sulah, striped upon one
side with a darker shade in velvet. The
half train was laid i'll large folds and hung
strait to the foot, where it terminated in
close, fine plaitings, three deep, over very
full and fine lace balageuse. The front was
covered with silk tullo matching the silk,
from which hung small, pendent fuschlas,
formed of Jets the color of the tulle. The
bodice was draped with plain tulle, the
open front exhibiting a plastrOn of the
pendants
Another elegant dress was of black MORE,
striped and draped with a silk grenadine,
into which fine real Jets are woven 50 that
they cannot come off, because they are part
of the fabric The bodice is entirely of the
transparent, jetted material. A handsome
and striking dress was of cOpper-cOlored
peau de sole, with panel and vest of white
MORE. covered with festoons of carved
rosary beads of two sizes, but neither OF
them large.
The richest dress, however, was of striped
brocade, the stripes forming ribbons with
small scattered rosebud pattern on a pale
cutlace green ground, with deep pLcot edge
This was madein French, conventional style,
with open bodice, draped with Mechlin lace
and Mechlin lace ruffles caught up with
bows upon the inside of the close elbow
sleeves.
At an opening Of fresh costumes at the
Ocean House some dresses were shown by
Mrs. Armstrong of New York, that We're
very pretty, and not SO extravagant III style
or price. as some. A narrow, ribbon,
STRIPED silk grenadine in two shades Of bus
emit. was draped high over a buSCuit
colored MORE skirt, with brown and biscuit
MORE ribbons.
A lovely dress for young girl was of
moonlight blue silk tulle, striped with mar
row satin ribbons ending in loops and Dor
der of the ribbons at the foot, over surah
of the same shade. Scarfs of plain tulle
are crossed at the sides and formed drape-
nv ut the back. The least expensive dress
was of striped blue and white Saline, made
n,oop plain blue Saline with side panels
divided by folds Of the stripe OF Madeira
embroidery. This was considered very
cheap at $50.
A charming cotton dress was of fine,
white. spriCgcd embroidery, over pink ging-
ham. which formed the straight skirt and
scarf like drapery hung i'll deep testoon at
the side. The bodice and sleeves were en-
tirely of the embroidery over pink. A quite
new material is madeo of twisted threads the
colors twisted together before being woven.
II makes a light fabric, with the texture
and appearance of China crepe, semi trans
narent and very elastic, yet servlceable. A
bIue dress of this kind was lovely, with
little square figure embroidered in the midst
Of nm invisible check and made up over blue
silk. $500.
An ideal dress for a young girl was of
white goats hair, bordered with the two
series Of narrow cream colored gros grain
ribbons. A black and white foulard was
made over white silk and trimmed with
black silk lace, hand woven, and showing
an doplioue of silk flowers i'll velvet, which
had a raised effect, but looked as if woven
=, the design. The interior Of the skirt was
foced with Il deep, scant rullie OF white
embroidery.
The wraps were very small, and consisted
of lace and jet almost exclusively. The
MINORITY were deeply pointed, back and
front tile point accumulated by ornaments
or festoons of JET and long loops OF MORE